Star Necklace

Star Necklace  How to make a star necklace bead
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Remember Mardi Gras style plastic bead necklaces you got at parties? This will show you how to make a star necklace out of one of them. Fun to wear or for making ornaments. You can even make one of these star necklaces with this bead garlands!
 

Supplies
Materials
  • Bead necklace (even-sized)

  • Or a garland  

Directions

How to Make a Star on a Beaded Necklace

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Begin the star necklace

  • Find your necklaces. Use only those with even sized beds (varied sizes on one strand don't work for this).

  • Put the necklace on before you begin this process, because the star makes the necklace too short to put on or take off. (You'll need to cut it off or take apart the star later.) If you're not going to use the star as a necklace, skip this step.

  • Start your star at the end opposite the end where there are two beads melted together.

  • Take a section of four or five beads

  • Twist them into one section. This is one leg of the star.

Complete the star shape for the star necklace

  • Make 4 sections total. Then pull the two remaining strands together so they complete the star.

  • Twist them together, and then go two beads down each strand.

  • Twist again, so that there's one more section of four beads. Your necklace is done.

  • Layer with others of different colors for different seasons, or wear to a sporting event. In any case, your necklaces will be the star of the party!

Video

Tips
  • Remember to put your necklace on first! It does you no good if you cannot put your necklace on later!

  • Watch out for the melted together beads, for they can make this project harder than necessary.

  • If you can't figure out why your necklace doesn't look like a star, you put the sections on a single strand, not both strands.

Going further

 Article provided by wikiHow, a wiki how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Make a Star on a Beaded Necklace. All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.

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